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That whole complex is a while elephant. Why are the girls living in ? either because the rooms are shit or more likely simply because no-one would want to rent them. Bt30k a month is in town money. Bt1.3m is a fantasy price.

Wouldn't ribs be marinated in a sauce though ?

Single room supplement ?

Yes I do. If you are too lazy or stupid to read the rules for cancellation before you book why should the booking agent be responsible for that ? If you think it is the agent's fault, you need to go back to school.

You cannot knock Agoda for the OP not reading the booking conditions ! As mentioned, travel insurance would be advisable. Seems the OP forgot to consider that as well. Hardly fair to blame Agoda for that either. I appreciate being pissed off but can't accept it is a fault of anyone other than the OP.

I don't know where to suggest around Soi 7 or 8 but what about the idea of this place, if not the actual place itself. Much better rates available on places like ratestogo and wotif etc. and sometimes direct but quite a nice place in reality. http://www.fourseasonsplace.com/rates.php http://fourseasonsplacepattaya.com/ http://www.sawadee.com/hotel/pattaya/fours...nplace/#details

I think the bottom line on fish is that people want to know what they are getting and some don't mind to pay for cod or other imported varieties if they actually get that fish and it is good quality. The biggest worry is that you pay out Bt300 for local fish which they sell to you as cod. Having gotten the fish right, you would think they could sort out decent chips and the side dishes.

Did we ever find out if the owners had stopped just pocketing the service charges ?

Jet gives out 28kg, Etihad doesn't seem to mind so much as I've been heavy with them. No problems with Qatar either but we had a baby on that one which always eases things.

Bloody hell you are under the thumb. Moving from VT2 to Chateau Dale which is all of about 500m was too much for you, sorry too much for your bird ? You'll be telling us that she chose the condo next ! The price of studios in VT2 has more to do with their respective size. The standard sizes are 37sqm, 41sqm and 46sqm. As the largest is some 24% bigger than the smallest, it stands to reason. Quality does affect price for sure, but you would never pay twice the price based on how it was fitted out. I do think you overpaid but many do. Best of luck in the new place.

Its not quite 24 hours a day Chris - at least not every day Main thing is getting a good map drawn up. Doesn't have to be to scale, but has to show where you are easily. I mean, I lived next door to Thepprasit for years and have driven down it hundreds if not thousands of times and I have no idea where any soi is. Get a big easy to see sign as well.

A point not missed. The OP seems to overpay on condos by some margin. Just had a look at Alan Bolton's website and he's having a laugh. Studio condos at 22,000 a month and so forth and that Thai Bali one seems to be misrepresented as it looks like a studio, not a 1 bed (bedroom and living room all together and sofa is 2 feet from the TV !). Better to get a house.

Chris, Bets of luck mate. You would do well to put up some sort of map which shows people where Soi 10 actually is. Remember, no baht buses routes from downtown to there and the easier you make it for non expats to find you the better. Being picky but is it really, Thepresit ? I'd have thought Thepprasit or Theprasit. Best of luck with the new venture. Any parking ?

Overpriced shithole with shady history and hygiene problems and arrogant owners who have censored mention of the business on other web boards.

Well of course you know what I know more than I know of course. Stands to reason Why on earth would I write that I don't know anyone who knows anyone if I did ?

Perhaps a good idea to get a Thai girl to ask but make sure she is asking for her and her bike, not her and you and your bike !

I'm old enough to remember all the threats in the 1980s/90s and the government campaigns which basically told us that we would die from AIDS. later we found out that it was mostly an Arse Injected Death Sentence for poofs. You know, queers and faggots and bum boys etc. And a few druggies thrown in for good measure. So what ? a disease which kills puffs and druggies ? More of a blessing than a worry you might have thought. Sort of god cleansing the filth up from society, at least that is how the church looked upon it. So roll on to today, some 20+ years later and I've lived in a number

Are you saying that you need more than 30 days, more than 60 days or more than 90 days ?

Some years ago, there was some airliner which was hijacked and landed in the UK. The fuckers on that plane, who should have been flying to some arab shithole probably, knowing they were in the UK, claimed asylum. Now they didn't even think they were going to the UK. It is like they got on the wrong bus, ended up in the land of milk and honey by accident and wanted to stay. The appalling thing is that many of them were allowed to remain and loads of shit wank lawyers were fighting for them to remain and getting paid by the tax payers. Fucked up UK.

I have no intention of ever living in the USA and no intention of ever setting foot in Africa.

I found a decent sparky in Buriram but had to keep on at the spec and argue about the mathematics of which breakers I needed. Zero knowledge of physics and Watts/Volts=Amps etc. I got some help from a UK sparky on another board and just insisted on this and that. Once he picked it up, he went with it, but probably still tells his mates that some stupid git did this and that. At least I know that the place will not blow up because the wiring is dodgy. I plumbed in our outside kitchens in both Buriram and Pattaya as I'd seen what utter shite the local plumbers could do. I let one of them cut

That made my day that did. Great laugh.

You are wasting your breath. The OP came on here to try to flog this dead horse and has subsequently vanished, never to be seen again.